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Back in the very early nineties, a friend of mine had a shareware? RPG? on his Mac. You were breaking out of a hospital or mental Institution; I think you were supposed to be a psycho killer. You had options to Punch or Kick in combat. One of the first weapons you could find was a syringe that would instant-kill one enemy. One of the first enemies was a cop you could kill for his pistol. we never got very far, but I would really like to know what that game was.
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I Love My Axe posted:Was it in black and white? Sounds like Psychotic! The Escape. Yeah, that looks like it's the one. Thanks!
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Jan 20, 2017 14:05
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Fil5000 posted:This one's a long shot - early PC game, same sort of era as Sopwith. You were in a plane and the screen was split - top half was an overhead view, bottom half was a side on view of your plane. I've got a hazy memory that it involved shooting at biker gangs. I've got it in my head that the name starts with an F, but I can't be sure at all. Hey, something I know. That's Flightmare.
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Mar 29, 2017 13:02
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There's not much to go on, but I'm trying to find a side-scrolling fantasy game for the Amiga where the hero character throws/shoots swords, (or other weapons he picks up; dagger, long sword, broad sword). Probably from '91 or older. Could have been for the C64, but I think it was for Amiga.
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Mar 30, 2017 08:28
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ChrisXP posted:Ghosts n Goblins or Ghouls n Ghosts, surely I don't think so. I think it had more of a sword & sorcery / brawny barbarian aesthetic. (It's not Barbarian I or II.) But it very likely could be a lesser known rip-off of Ghouls n Ghosts. This is all very vague, but I think the first level was some kind of castle yard; you equipped weapon was prominently displayed in the bottom center of the screen. I would guess it was Western, not Japanese.
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Mar 30, 2017 09:48
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I had a look at all the games mentioned, but it's not any of them. I don't think the player character was bare-chested, so my brawny barbarian comment probably was misleading. It's also possible it was on another system, possibly a mega drive, but I still think Amiga is most likely. However, none of the youtube videos I looked at seemed familiar.
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Mar 30, 2017 16:24
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Not Leander. I only saw the game once or twice at a friend's house; the only really clear impression that has stayed with me was the design of the 'broadsword' weapon (or upgrade) you found. (I'm not sure if it was called broadsword in game). It, like the earlier weapons, was displayed horizontally. It think you saw your weapon displayed prominently in the bottom center of the screen throughout the game, but it's also possible it was only displayed on pickup. At the hilt, it was as narrow as the earlier sword you had, but then it flared out in a inverted quarter-circle on each side, then the edges ran parallel again. For illustration, sort of like the fourth sword in this picture: 
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Mar 30, 2017 17:29
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Two Owls posted:Rastan, Rastan Saga, or Cadash? Myth: History in the Making? Deathbringer? Hagar the Horrible? All negative, but thanks for the suggestions.
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Mar 31, 2017 00:38
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No hopes for this one, but in the early nineties I briefly played some shareware rpg, probably inspired by Wizardry or Bard's Tale. The only thing I remember clearly were some of the encounters: "You are attacked by 6 hobbits." "You are attacked by 9 gollums." That plural of Gollum really stuck with me.
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Apr 17, 2019 06:24
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That cutscene was already in Warlords 1, too.
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Jan 13, 2020 13:52
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Just guessing as I never played it, maybe Bene Tleilax in Emperor: Battle for Dune?
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Aug 3, 2020 12:38
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ZearothK posted:Yeah, unfortunately that isn't it either. I remember very clearly that it was a top down one instead of isometric, but thanks for trying! Alien Swarm has the correct perspective and theme, but you'd probably remember that it's very much a coop multi-player game. It started out as a UT2k4 mod, but was remade as a free standalone game on Steam.
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Feb 2, 2021 02:32
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I probably asked this before, but never had any luck finding an answer: This was a shareware RPG I got on a 5.25'' disk from a computer magazine, somewhere between '89 and '91. The graphics were primitive, maybe even ASCII similar to nethack, but I believe you had a party. The only thing I remember about it clearly is that among the enemy types you could encounter were hobbits and 'gollums'. You would get a message like "You encounter 9 gollums", which would annoy me to no end, as I knew there was only ever one Gollum. I think it's more likely this was after I had first read Lord of the Rings, which would put in in 1991.
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Feb 5, 2021 02:45
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I may have gotten this completely mixed up somehow, but a few years ago an acquaintance had a playlist of old 8- and 16bit video game tracks, and one of then uncannily reminded me of a piece of music from A Chinese Ghost Story 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRLLdwyR8zA Any chance this reminds someone of a game from the early 90s?
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Dec 21, 2021 05:43
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Pierzak posted:Looking for a turn-based front-level WW2 strategy game with a specific focus on managing to survive and/or accomplish objectives despite Stalin's/Hitler's paranoia and constantly changing plans. Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa?
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Apr 8, 2022 12:53
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I might as well as for another mid-nineties arcade game: an early 3D fighting game with manga-looking characters. The gimmick was that the fighters flew/floated inside a cube-shaped 3D arena. One had some kind of black hole/gravity attack.
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Apr 28, 2022 02:11
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Pablo Nergigante posted:That sounds like Psychic Force Yeah, that's it, thanks!
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May 2, 2022 19:33
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There's also the UFO: Aftermath/Aftershock/Afterlight series. Your description doesn't sound like the first or third game, but I've never played the second, and I think it had different races.
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Oct 17, 2022 12:19
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someone awful. posted:sort of asking for my dad; between us both we can't remember what the heck this game was called. he played it a ton in the 90s, it was a turn-based strategy map game kind of thing, with online multiplayer -- i'm pretty sure it was play-by-email and games would go for multiple days. it was historical i think (like, as opposed to fantasy/scifi i mean -- i remember there were tanks) i'm pretty sure it was a free game he downloaded, and not something he bought. iirc the graphics were a little primitive, or at least 2d/flat. Warlords 2 Deluxe had a whole lot of different maps, some of which had modern units (that looked primitive.)
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Jan 24, 2024 22:28
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I'm going to try this one again: A side-scrolling fantasy game where you play a ranger-like guy, not Franzetta aesthetics. You shoot/throw daggers or swords horizontally and can upgrade to different types. Unlimited ammo, I think. Warm brown/orange colors. Amiga or Genesis/Mega Drive. 1991 or earlier.
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Mar 31, 2024 09:04
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mr_mojo posted:Brown/orange and throwing knives immediately made me think of Gods That was an early guess the last time I asked too, but it's not it. The player character was less burly, more like a leather-armored ranger type. He was shooting swords in a straight line as his default attack.
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Mar 31, 2024 13:09
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Either I got the wrong impression of what kind of game Void Bastards was from only skimming over the reviews, or there was a game with a very similar setting a few years back that's a party based RPG. Does anyone know what I could be thinking of? It's not Deep Sky Derelicts, I played that.
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Apr 20, 2024 10:49
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Hwurmp posted:Duskers, maybe Not Duskers either. I think it really was me being under a wrong impression about Void Bastards.
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Apr 20, 2024 11:26
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A Worrying Warlock posted:Maybe StarCrawlers? It's a similiar setting, but you control a party from a first person perspective like Wizardry. Yeah, that's it. Thanks!
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Private Speech posted:In particular it had this DOS/Win95/98 strategy game that was a bit like Empire 2 but not quite. It might have been Empire 2 but I think it was a clone; it had slightly prettier/chunkier unit icons, but otherwise it was a similar grid-based strategy game with counters. Does anyone have any ideas what it could be? Is Empire Deluxe too obvious? Warlords 2 Deluxe was also inspired by Empire.
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